SOCAT is promoted by IOCCP, the Sur-
face Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study, and the Integrated Marine
Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research program. Douglas
Wallace (Dalhousie University, Canada and former SOLAS chair)
has strongly encouraged SOCAT. Support has been received from
the University of Bergen (Norway), the Bjerknes Centre for Cli-
mate Research (Norway), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (United States), the University of Washington
(United States), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (United States),
the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom), PANGAEA –
Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental data (Germany), the
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Ger-
many), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France),
the CarboOcean (Norway, GOCE 511176-1) and CarboChange
(Norway, FP7 264879) projects of the European Union, the US
National Science Foundation (United States, OCE-1068958), the
international Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR,
United States, OCE-0938349), and the UK Ocean Acidification
Research Programme (NE
/
H017046
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1; funded by the Natural
Environment Research Council, the Department for Energy and
Climate Change and the Department for Environment, Food and
Rural A
ff
airs). Support for SOCAT meetings has been received
from IOCCP, IMBER, the European Cooperation in Science and
Technology (COST) Action 735 (United Kingdom), Geomar
(Germany), the National Institute for Environmental Studies
(Japan), and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (Australia).